After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has returned to Earth after an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station. He ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound psychological impact upon us ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

The footage, which NASA released on Dec. 3, was captured by the Perseverance rover inside Jezero Crater on Sept. 6, as ...

"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...